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The House Committee on Science, Space and Technology today reviewed NASA’s budget request of $17.7 billion for fiscal year 2014 — a proposed reduction of $55 million. A large focus of Obama’s budget and the NASA budget is focusing the mission to capture a near-earth asteroid. The budget requests an additional $105 million to begin …

TexMessage Tuesday, April 2 TEXclusive Good morning, TexMessagers! Should Texas expand Medicaid? Texas political titans took to the airwaves yesterday, with Democrats calling for an expansion of Medicaid while Republicans argued it would be an unaffordable entitlement. At a press conference with Gov. Rick Perry, Sen. John Cornyn and Republican lawmakers from DC defended Texas’ …

President Barack Obama, flanked by family members of shooting victims, spoke from the White House Wednesday in a renewed effort from the bully pulpit to push Congress on gun control. On the 100th day since the Newtown school shooting that killed 20 children and six teachers, Obama called on Congress to pass measures on universal …

A growing group of Texas Democratic lawmakers is beginning to embrace same-sex marriage. But when Congress enacted the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996 — the law the Supreme Court is reviewing today — not a single Texas Democrat voted against it. Most of the members of the Texas Democratic delegation from 1996 have been …

As Texas on the Potomac reported earlier today, Texans are slowly warming to the possibility of same-sex couples being legally married. While the majority of Texans oppose lifting the ban, Democrats have seen a sharp increase in support for gay marriage. The reaction of Texas lawmakers to today’s events reflected this trend — particularly among …

The Republican establishment awaited Steve Stockman’s return to Washington with some trepidation. After all, this is the guy who, in a single, memorable term in Congress from 1995 to 1997, made national headlines for his contacts with domestic militia figures, his suggestion that the Clinton administration burned down cult leader David Koresh’s Waco compound as …

A united Texas Democratic congressional delegation sent a letter to Gov. Rick Perry this week asking him to reconsider his refusal to accept funding from the federal government to expand Medicaid. Perry has opposed Medicaid expansion from the beginning and doesn’t show any signs of backing down, despite growing pressure from some Republicans and business …

The likelihood of a massive meteor slamming into Earth is unlikely to occur anytime soon — but funding by Congress could help scientists detect future threats, National Aeronautics and Space Administration said today. NASA leaders and administration officials told members of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee that most of the massive Near-Earth Objects that could …

The House advanced two cybersecurity bills designed to address an emerging form of warfare and sabotage, keyed by the support of a bipartisan group of Texas lawmakers. The House Science, Space, and Technology Committee, chaired by Lamar Smith, R-San Antonio, unanimously approved the bills on Thursday. “As our reliance on information technology expands, so do …